The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-05

REPORTS from the Northwest on the 25th
We're to the effect that the thermometer reg
tstered q point lower on that date than ever
before in October.
WHILE acting as target-marker on the
25th for the Brainerd Minn.) Rifle Club
William Monroe an old soldier, was aoci-
dentally shot and killed.
ADvICEs of the 25th say that q white man
named Parrish shot and killed three negro
men in Calhoun County. Fla, because they
took his boat without permission to gather
drift-wood in the river
BUFFALO On. W adyices of the 25th say
that details Of the recent great storm on
Lake Erie show that fifteen vessels were
wrecked and seven lives were lost
The State officials of Indiana on the 25th
begun war against certain mutual in
surance companies charged with carrying
on q fraudulent business An attempt
| would be made to drive them out of the
State -.I4
The third Chinese suicide ever known in
New York City occurred on the Goth Low
He Yone. Chinese laundryman, cut his
throat in his laundry. ..
UP to the 26th there had been from 225
to $50 cases of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla
and 81 deaths. ... :
JEFF DAVIS reviewed procession of
Macon, GA ,-nn the Goth . --,. .ss
ON the 18th two companies OF rangers
We're ordered to Starr County, Tex, to pro-
tect the inhabitants from the raids Of MexI-
can bandits
Almont Lightning, bay stallion sired by
Almont. died at East Aurora N. Y, on the
2Gth. He was valued at $4,000
FIRE on the 2Gth destroyed shanty at
the new aqueduct In course OF construction
at New York, and two men persisted.
BOTTLE was picked mp on the 26th at
Sandwich, Mass, containing a message that
the steamer Sidney Wright was off Kew
West and in danger OF foundering. The
Wright, with crew of six men, left Phila-
delphia September IA, 1880, and was never
heard from
NUMBER OF ejectment suits were on the
10th decided against farmers in Pope
County, Ill, and in favor of nonresident
claimants. Many of the victims had entered
the lands even before patents were granted,
| and had been occupying them for q quarter
OF century.
The fact became known on the Goth that
Henry Martin Jackson. the cashier of the
sub-treasury in New York City, was a de-
faulter to the extent of $4,000, and had
fed to Canada
The Indians in the Northwest are inclined
to stray from their own territory, and
owing to the trouble with the Crows the
Secretary Of the Interior on the 2Gth Or
dered the agents to keep the various tribes
upon their respective reservations.
The last game of the worlds baseball
championship series, played on the Goth at
ST Louis, resulted: St Louis, 8; Detroit 9.
In the fifteen games. of which Detroit won
ten. Detroit scored II and the ST. Louis
Browns SO runs
The steamship Gaelic, which arrived in
San Francisco on the Goth, brought news of
the drowning Of three hundred persons in
Chinese waters by the wrecking of two
steamers
MRS. KETCHUM, OF the town of Sodus,
N Y, was literally scared to death on the
26Jh by the attempts of a drunken man to
gain admission to her home
IT was announced On the 26th that the
manufacturers and fint-glass workers were
unable to reach an understanding, ana q
strike was imminent, which would involve
about five thousand persons
DURING the last year 81 ,O95, $40 has been
expended by the Government in the educa-
tion of Indian children.
The story of evlctions in Texas by syndl-
cate of foreign capitalists was on the 9th
denied absolutely by the officials of the COM
pany.
AT funeral on the 9th near Sycamore,
O., the horses ran away with the hearse and
wrecked it, A genera panic followed, dur
Ing which Rev. Mr. Howells was probably
fatally injured
The James L. Regan Printing Company
of Chicago failed on the 9th for $125sOQO
The two daughters of Michael Hogan, of
North Adams, Mass, were suffooated by gas
from q coal stove on the 9th
NEGROES belonging to the Knighcs of
Labor. and engaged on sugar plantations in
Louisiana, struck for higher wages and re-
fused to permit willing men to fill their po-
sitions On the 9th State troops were dis.
patched by Governor McEnery to queu any
disturbance they might cause. -
EUGENE SEA1PLE, Governor OF Washington
Territory, in his annual report on the 27th
places the population at 143, 669; taxable
property, 500 GS3, 500; railroad mileage,
1860; approximate acreage of coal lands,
$50, 600. Governor Semple recommends
that the Territory be admitted as State
! into the Union.
JAMES IL. HAMILTON, mail-carrier be-
tween Maine and Lake Worth, on the South
| Atlantic coast OF Florida. was pulled from
! his boat and devoured by sharks on the
| 9th while crossing Hillsboro inlet in
! row-boat =,
! VINCENT g. WHITNEY. ticket agent for
the twelve different railroads which enter
! the relay depot of ST Louis, No., disappeared
on the 9th, leaving a shortage in his ac-
counts of So, 600.
The corner stone Of the monument to be
erected at Richmond to the memory of Gen.
| eral Robert Z. Lee was laid on the. 9th
with appropriate ceremonies
-S.W. RAwsoN, the Chicago banker, was on
the 9th recovering slowly from the wounds
| inflicted by his step-s0n Lee, in front OF a
church, and his physicians said that his
prospects for return to health We're good
THE Michigan Salt Association on the 81 tn
determined to stop the manufacture of salt
from December l to April l, in order to re-
| duce the large surplus now on the market
| ARGUMENTS for writ of error in the Chi
| cago Anarchists case We're commenced be-
fore the United States Supreme Court in
! Washington on the 9th.
! The Grand Army men Of Ohio, Indiana
| and Kentucky met in reunion at Cincinnati
on the 9th. In the parade five thousand
men were in line. rEE.
AT the International convention Of
| Brotherhood of Railroad Brak emen in Bing-